Closer Productions is a collective of award-winning filmmakers based in Adelaide, South Australia. The Closer team has created entertaining and provocative documentary, drama and virtual reality films, which have screened in cinemas, TV, art galleries and at major festivals around the world. Closer creates work for all kinds of screens and many different audiences. Closer also operate a services arm catering to a broad range of clients across education, business and the arts.

Sophie Hyde

Director / Producer

Sophie is a director and producer who makes provocative and intimate drama and documentary work. She
directed, produced and co-wrote the innovative feature drama 52 TUESDAYS which won the directing
award for world cinema at Sundance 2014 and the Crystal Bear at the Berlinale
2014.

Bec is a producer with many years experience in television and film. Prior to joining Closer, Bec worked at the South Australian Film Corporation where she was instrumental in establishing their low budget feature initiative FilmLab; innovative for its risk-taking approach to financing films without market attachment and its focus on teams rather than projects.

Matthew is an AWGIE winning and AACTA nominated screenwriter. His writing
credits include feature film 52 Tuesdays (Crystal
Bear at Berlinale Film Festival, AWGIE Award for Original Screenplay), episodic
series Fucking Adelaide for ABC, the award-winning short film My
Last Ten Hours with You, as well as co-creator of transmedia project My
52 Tuesdays.

For the last 9 years, Matthew has also worked in development,
production, and sales with Adelaide-based Closer Productions across such
projects as feature documentaries Shut Up Little Man! An Audio
Misadventure, Life
in Movement and Sam
Klemke's Time Machine, and hybrid doco/drama I Want to Dance
Better at Parties.

Matt started working with Closer as a script supervisor and one of the production managers (with Kerri Hudson) on feature 52 TUESDAYS and continued as a production manager for HANNAH GADSBY'S OZ and I WANT TO DANCE BETTER AT PARTIES. Matt now works as a permanent member of the production team, managing Closer's development slate. As the third Matt at Closer, he's made life difficult for everyone.

Matt is also an emerging director and screenwriter, as well as part-time stand up comic. Matt has made a number of successful shorts and worked as writer across TV & Film. In 2014, Matt won Adelaide Comedy’s Rising Star Award for Best New Comedian, and was the recipient of the Colin Thiele Scholarship for Creative Writing. In 2015, Matt’s latest short, MY BEST FRIEND IS STUCK ON THE CEILING, starring Tom Ward (PLEASE LIKE ME) and Erin James (THE LITTLE DEATH) and produced by Closer Productions, premiered at the Adelaide Film Festival. It went on to screen at Sydney Film Festival as a Dendy Award Finalist, Palm Springs International ShortFest, and Melbourne International Film Festival. In the featured image, Matt is wearing a beanie that makes him look like Batman, a not so secret dream of his.